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Movimiento Ciudadano admits it was their copy of the Mexican voter list on AWS, tries to deflect blame to researcher

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Dissent

A reader kindly informed me that Movimiento Ciudadano, one of the political parties that had legitimate access to Mexico’s voter data list, has admitted it was responsible for the leak on Amazon. Except that as I read more, I realized they weren’t really admitting they were responsible for the leak. I’ve been trying to read/translate a number…

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GoldCorp hacked, data dumped

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Dissent

Yesterday I was contacted by hackers who claimed that GoldCorp, a gold-mining firm with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia (TSX:G NYSE: GG), had been “badly hacked” and its data dumped. I’ve written up the details we’ve found so far, and you can read all about it on The Daily Dot, where I’ll be contributing occasionally. And if you’re the hacker(s) who…

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SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases, issues software security update

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dissent

Jim Finkle reports: SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers on Monday that it was aware of “a number of recent cyber incidents” where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system. The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the…

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Lawsuit claims workers comp insurers hacked into injured workers’ files

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Dissent

Donna Mahoney reports: A California worker claims in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally hacked over 32,000 confidential workers comp files. A lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Homestate, San…

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Mexico launches criminal probe into exposure of voter information (updated)

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Dissent

Dell Cameron reports: Mexican authorities have begun criminal proceedings into a data theft incident said to affect more than 87 million registered voters. Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) filed a criminal complaint on Friday with the country’s election crimes office concerning millions of voter records discovered on a U.S.-based Amazon cloud server. The theft of…

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Mexican government responds to data leak of voter information

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Dissent

Overnight, I received a response from the INE with answers to some questions I had posed to them about a massive database leak of Mexican voter data. The leak had been discovered by MacKeeper researcher Chris Vickery. Let’s begin with the government’s press release: INTERPONE INE DENUNCIA POR USO INDEBIDO DE LA LISTA NOMINAL DE…

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